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Minimoog Model D Old vs New

Published on Mar 19, 2017 AudioCentralMagazine

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Minimoog Model D old vs new - Part 1
"The first part of a direct - and probably useless - comparison between our beaten and worn Model D SN 1845E from the Seventies and a brand new Model D SN 007 2016. In this part: tuning and beating... How to reach nearly zero beating on the old machine, how to reach slow beating on the new machine. As usual, tweaking with parameters, you'll obtain same result. As usual, two analog machines will NEVER play exactly the same; small differences as in the real life."

Moog Minimoog D old vs new - Part 2
"In this video, a direct comparison between old and new Model D. Filter Sweep slow with and without resonance, manually opened and under envelope control. Some waveform switching for square waves."

Minimoog Model D old vs new - Part 3
"Part 3 of comparison between old and new Model D. Some patch programming with matching (and not-so-matching) of parameters. As usual, in analog machines, physical position of front panel controls doesn't means nothing - it all depends on internal trimming points."

Moog Minimoog Model D old vs new Part 4
"On this video, Grp R24 Step Sequencer is driving Model D vintage (row B) and Model D 2016 (row A) with same sequence of notes (yep!). Row C drives both cutoff frequencies on synthesizers. Some Ratcheting 2x on some steps."

Rephazer - Rippling Creek (demo/live jam)

Published on Mar 19, 2017 Rephazer

"A little jam that arose out of a little loop I found on the Octatrack.. Sorry about the audio problems (bad cable) and half of the gear being out of frame, anyway.. it's business and mistakes as usual.. Hope you enjoy this and thanks for watching/listening.

Octatrack: (Midi/Main) Sequencer and Piano/Beatloops
Analog Four: (CV) Sequencer and Arps/Additional Bass
MS-20 mini: Main Bassline
System-1: Gated pad sound
V-Machine: Piano played with Behringer UMA25s
OP-1: Organ and Additional Bass
iMix: Mixer
H4n: Audio recording
iPhone: Video recording"

The Schmidt Synthesizer Part 2

Published on Mar 19, 2017 MrFirechild

"This track is using sounds only from The Schmidt Synthesizer, one of the best and most unique synthesizers ever made. Only 50 units will be manufactured. The Schmidt is using discrete analog components for filters and oscillators while envelopes and LFO´s are controlled by software. Composed and produced by www.firechild.se"

Part 1 here.

New Pics of the Alesis Andromeda A6 with Custom Hinged Front Panel Mod

Some new pics in via creator Thomas Heck. This is a follow-up to this previous post.

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Moog Sub Phatty

Published on Mar 19, 2017 3rdStoreyChemist

"Messing around with the Sub Phatty synthesiser. Exploring the front panel controls.

Synth was recorded direct with no further processing except for normalisation."

Univox MiniKORG 700 K-1 SN 3260

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"This mid-70's monophonic analog synth has a bit of cosmetic wear but is in excellent working order."

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Ultimate Percussion K2-x

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This is the one featured in this video.

"Ultimate Percussion K2-X Analog Synthesizer System
8 Channel drum/synth with built in sequencer.

Nice analogue drum module. Very different to Simmons and Tama units. Has 8 individual channels/sounds. Can be triggered by a CV sequencer or other drum triggers (not included). Each channel/sound has its own input trigger and individual output. It also has a stereo output. There is a stereo EQ for the output also. The onboard preset sequencer is very basic, not programmable, just has a few preset sequences that can play. The Ultimate Percussion K2-X is a very unit, I have two of them, the one I am selling is the same as the one in the pictures. I will upload more photos on request. There's a link to a youtube video I made a while back testing it with a 707 as the trigger. Not a great deal of info around about this one, a few of them pop up on matrix synth from time to time.

Pros, good bass, really nice white noise and pure analogue snares and hat type sounds. Toms are what you would expect from an analogue drum module. Used by PLAID (apparently)
Cons, it's very green. It's big.

Good condition. It's a vintage unit so comes with a few bumps and scratches here and there but overall is in great condition. Looks good. All the knobs have their caps.

more info: 8 trigger inputs
Individual outputs + stereo main outputs and headphone output
One special Bass drum channel
One special Snare channel
Six completely tuneable oscillator synth channels
All channels have these controls - Level, Pan, Trigger Sensitivity, Decay, Bite, Noise Filter, Noise + VCO mix, VCO pitch and VCO Sweep
All channels have Pulse button - Pulse generates an in tempo trigger."

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VERMONA Rare Analog Synthesizer

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"Rare vintage analog synthesizer made in GDR between the years 1983 and 1990. 100% working but have some external defects (scratches, scuff etc.). It is a 2-VCO monophonic analog synthesizer. It has most basic analog edit parameters. A 24 dB/oct analog VCF filter with 4 knobs (Brilliance, CutOff, Resonance, Contour), a single LFO to modulate the VCO or VCF sections and a typical ADSR VCA envelope. There are preset VCF and VCA settings as well as a Manual mode.Its sounds are pretty basic analog stuff. It makes a real nice analog bass and all sound. Colorful knobs, a clean layout, vintage wood end-cheeks and a genuine analog sound. Very reminds sound legendary MOOG and ARP synth."

KORG MONO/POLY

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"Overhauled before shipping for long life and to keep original sounds,
Change all electrolytic capacitors and voltage regulators, most of short life Operational Amplifiers and logis ICs with new ones.
Knobs, switches and jacks cleaning.
Four VCOs are in perfect unison due to special VCO circuit care."

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